There are currently 18 to 19 families of snakes with approximately 2,950 different species. With so many snakes, both on land and in the sea, there is a wide variety of colors and sizes. In the ...

Doctors sent Jake Latimer home after he was bitten by a banded sea krait, a docile but highly venomous snake. Sea kraits have some of the most toxic venom of any animal, but the snake did not inject ...

A marine snake has evolved to see colour after losing the ability millions of years ago. It is one of only two reptiles known to have regained this type of colour vision. Over the last 25 million ...

There’s nothing quite like a hungry baby. For this mother eagle, mealtime means turning to the water for a tasty snake treat. The video begins with the mother eagle scanning the environment for ...

Jess Thomson is a Newsweek Science Reporter based in London UK. Her focus is reporting on science, technology and healthcare. She has covered weird animal behavior, space news and the impacts of ...

The black-banded sea krait (known as erabu umi hebi or irabu in Japan) is a sea snake that lives—among other places—off the coast of Okinawa, Japan. It’s highly poisonous—but according to BBC Earth, ...

An incredible image showing a photographer's point of view as he was surrounded by venomous sea snakes is among the pictures chosen for the 58th Wildlife Photographer of the Year exhibition. The ...